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Audio at Home Advances in consumer audio technology for the home
6th - 8th April 2006New Hall, Cambridge
Thursday 6th April 2006
09:30 to 18:00
Introduction
John Dawson, Conference co-chairman |
Session 1: Home Audio - The Market
Chairman: John Dawson |
| What consumers want to buy |
| Nick Simon, GfK | www.gfkms.com |
Coffee
Session 2: Industrial Design & Consumer Distribution
Chairman: David Errock |
| Industrial design for mass consumer products |
| Bob Brace, Nokia | www.nokia.com |
| The evolving industrial design of hi-fi |
| Allen Boothroyd, Cambridge Product Design | www.cpdesign.co.uk |
| Custom installers: the new high-end distributors |
| David Graham, Grahams Hi-Fi | www.grahams.co.uk |
Lunch
Session 3: HD audio With video - tutorial
Chairman: Mark Yonge |
| Tutorial part one - video primer |
| John Dawson, ARCAM | www.arcam.co.uk |
| Tutorial part two - HDMI physical interface |
| Bob Stuart, Meridian | www.meridian-audio.com |
Tea
Session 4: New HD Formats and Coding
Chairman: Rhonda Wilson |
| New HD formats |
| Bill Foster, Understanding And Solutions | www.UandS.com |
| Audio coding for future entertainment formats |
| Tony Spath, Dolby | www.dolby.com |
| HD - panel discussion |
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Dinner at New Hall (included)
Friday 7th April 2006
09:00 to 17:30
Session 5: Surround Loudspeakers In The Home
Chairman: Tim Harris |
| Multiple surround sound formats - cinema to the home |
| Laurence Claydon, Bell Theatre Services | www.bell-theatre.com |
| Unobtrusive audio: new models |
| Andrew Watson, KEF | www.kef.com |
| One-box surround sound |
| Tony Hooley, 1 Ltd | www.1limited.com |
| Surround with fewer speakers |
| Mark Dodd and Jack Oclee-Brown, KEF | www.kef.com |
Coffee
Lunch
Session 7: Personal Audio
Chairman: Mark Dodd |
| Trends in mixed-signal ICs for the home audio market |
| Peter Frith, Wolfson Microelectronics | www.wolfsonmicro.com |
| Digital amplifiers - technology and applications |
| Steven Harris, D2Audio Corporation | www.d2audio.com |
| Headphone design, theory and applications |
| Mark Avis, Salford University | www.salford.ac.uk |
Tea
Dinner at Sidney Sussex College (optional)
Disclaimer: The organisers reserve the right to change the authors and topics
without notice.
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